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Rice Cows
What if cows made rice, too? Scientists used cow stem cells to grow high-protein rice, and it’s pink.
Rice grains act as stable scaffold for animal cell growth
Beef fat and muscle cells cultured for 9-11 days
8% more protein, 7% more fat than untreated rice
Beef-rice is estimated to generate generate 7x less CO2 emissions vs cow-meat production. Further hybrid-grain nutritional enhancement will aid the ongoing battle against global food shortages. Next up: bacon rice!
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Cool Diamonds
Bedazzling your outfit will keep you cool in more ways than one. Scientists developed nanodiamond-treated fabric to pull heat from the wearer.
Nanodiamonds = cheaper than regular diamonds
Made of same carbon lattice structure
Mixed and coated 1 side of cotton fabric
When tested against a 212 ºF hot plate, the nanodiamond fabric released 3.6 to 5.4 ºF more heat than its untreated control. Offering just enough cooling to save on A/C costs, it can also be used in future building materials. Hopefully they come pre-shrunk.
Space Surgery
Space surgery, a new WFH milestone. Doctors used spaceMIRA to for an operation on the International Space Station (ISS) while sitting in Alabama.
MIRA = Miniaturized in Vivo Robotic Assistant
Roughly the size of a microwave
Latency: 0.5-0.75s
Scaling helped compensate for latency; larger surgeon movements were made smaller by spaceMIRA. The successful operation offers treatment options in space and remote locations on Earth. No word on its crocheting ability though.
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Unnatural Selection
Last week: “Which would you rather ride?”
Targaryens may have won this battle, but House Unicorn is rumored to have learned flight after a YouTube binge sesh.
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